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Windows 10 will keep spying on you no matter how hard you try to stop it
- dang 11y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11056063 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11056063
- brudgers 11y agorelated: http://www.zdnet.com/article/when-it-comes-to-windows-10-privacy-dont-trust-amateur-analysts/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/when-it-comes-to-windows-10-pri...
- thecatspaw 11y ago> The most damning aspect of the entire investigation is the fact that Microsoft is lying to us when it gives us the ability to turn certain tracking features off. this should be illegal, and probably is.
- jmnicolas 11y agoIt never ceases to amaze me at how hard Microsoft is trying to shoot its foot with this spying (even backporting it to Win 7 and 8). On one hand they made tremendous progress in stability, openness to the point I would have trusted them with my personal IT but on the other hand they just waste their efforts with this spying.
- herbst 11y agoJust dont use it. Its like we discuss the usefulness the of LOVE virus over and over again. When you install it, whatever the original use case would be, you get spied on. As simple as that.
- mchahn 11y agoI finally managed to wean myself from windows a year ago and switch to linux exclusively. I do have trouble speaking badly about windows though. For many years it provided a tool that I couldn't replicate in Macs and Linux no matter how much I tried. It will forever hold a place in my heart (and I almost mean that).